The Countryfile presenter is thought to have lost his cool with the 26-year-old professional dancer and told her to stop snapping at him during their training sessions.

‘You don’t have to be so rude. Don’t push me too hard. I can’t do this, it’s too difficult,’ the 32-year-old is reported to have said to her after she told him off for making mistakes in their quickstep routine.

‘Matt really impressed the judges in his first week and Aliona is determined for him to stay at the top of the leader board,’ a source explains to The Sun.

‘He’s competitive too but she’s cranking up the pressure so much that he can’t take it any more.

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‘In the end he lost it with her completely and told her she needed to back off and stop being so critical and snappy.’

Following a sexy foxtrot – that left Bruno Tonioli gasping: ‘It was like watching a relentless, intense courtship’ – his other half warned him not to worry about touching the dancer or it would affect their routines’ naturalness.

In other Strictly news, veteran rocker Alice Cooper is lined up to perform a blood-curdling track on the Sunday results show that falls on October 31 – Halloween.